We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Citrix NetScaler based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The solution improves security performance."
"Enables a Web service that offers persistent client-server connections, IP restriction, URL rewrite (such as remove "/assets/" path from client-side URL path), and cache for CSS or JS files... You can easily use the GUI to set up all these requirements on the same network device within 20-30 minutes. (If you do the same steps on CLI, it might take less time.)"
"I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us."
"Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The NetScaler appliance has provided a lot of customers with greater high availability for their enterprise applications within a single site and across multiple locations."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The program is easy to install and to set up."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"The WAF component needs to be simplified so that it is easier to use."
"Citrix ADC can improve if it provides a more user-friendly interface and clear working protocols. Citrix is not working with classic RFC, it is working with Citrix RFC, which is not common in the world. If engineers of Citrix can provide us with more information on working with the classic IP networks it would be a benefit."
"Getting to use some of the advanced tools, even with the assistance of Citrix support, can be challenging."
"We face challenges with the solution's firmware upgrades frequently."
"I would like to see support for scripting, like "iRule", which gives you the option to implement any configuration which is not available out of the box."
"Manageability and adaptability can also be challenging for end customers."
"We would like to see some fairly large scale improvement in the configuration process for this solution."
"The tool needs to add a feature where we can access the network policy access manager."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Optimizing application delivery and ensuring robust network performance with its excellent stability and comprehensive load-balancing capabilities". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Loadbalancer.org.
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